Klaus Sühl
Klaus Sühl (born September 28, 1951 in Eddelstorf , Lower Saxony ) is a German political scientist and politician ( Die Linke ). From December 2014 to March 2020 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture in Thuringia .
Life
education
Klaus Sühl attended the elementary school in Eddelstorf , the middle school in Bad Bevensen and from 1964 to 1970 until the Abitur the high school Johanneum in Lüneburg .
In 1970 he went to study political science at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) and graduated with a degree in political science with an overall rating of very good . In 1986 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin with the title magna cum laude .
job
Klaus Sühl taught and researched as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Social Science Research at the Free University of Berlin until 1991 .
From 1991 to 1992 Klaus Sühl was managing director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft , a non-partisan citizens' association for the promotion of political, cultural and social relationships in Europe. In the early 1990s, Sühl was also the state chairman of the Humanist Association of Germany . From 1992 to 1995 he worked again at the Free University of Berlin . There he led the project for the publication of the memorial book for the Jewish victims of National Socialism in Berlin on behalf of the Berlin Senator for Cultural Affairs .
From 1995 to 1996 Klaus Sühl was managing director of Human Gaststätten und Kultur GmbH, (Ermelerhaus, Café Rix), Berlin. From 1996 to 2001 he was director of the European Information Center in the Jean Monnet House in Berlin.
politics
From 2001 to 2006 Klaus Sühl was State Secretary of the Ministry for Labor, Building and (from 2002 also) State Development of the Red-Red State Government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . With the end of the coalition between the SPD and the left-wing party PDS in Schwerin, Klaus Sühl was put into temporary retirement in November 2006. In 2007 he worked as an advisor to the parliamentary group Die Linke in the field of labor market policy and has been a member of the future commission of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2007 .
From 2008 to 2009 Sühl worked as the parliamentary group manager of the left parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament. From August 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011, Sühl worked for the State of Brandenburg, where he headed the Department of Interior, Law and Europe in the Representation of the State of Brandenburg at the federal level. From November 1, 2011, Sühl was employed by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and since May 1, 2012, he has been head of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's office in Brussels.
On December 5, 2014, he was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture in the red-red-green Ramelow I cabinet of Thuringia. He was given temporary retirement in March 2020.
OB candidate and city councilor in Dresden
On November 5, 2007, Sühl was unanimously proposed by the city council of the party Die Linke Dresden to the members of the party as their candidate for mayor for the election on June 8, 2008. The city party convention nominated Klaus Sühl on January 26, 2008 with 98.6 percent as the mayoral candidate for Die Linke.
With 14.47 percent, Klaus Sühl achieved the second-best result in the mayoral election on June 8, 2008, albeit with a clear gap to the CDU candidate Helma Orosz (47.61 percent). However, since an absolute majority is required in the first ballot for the election of Lord Mayor, there was a second ballot on June 22, 2008 in which Sühl (31.12 percent) and three other applicants lost to Orosz (64.04 percent) .
In the local elections in June 2009, Sühl was elected to the Dresden city council, from which he resigned in September 2010 for professional reasons due to his change to the representation of the state of Brandenburg at the federal government.
Others
From 1993 to 1995 Klaus Sühl was federal chairman of the Humanist Association of Germany . He is married and has two daughters.
Publications
- Leo Bauer. Careers of an outsider . 1983, ISBN 3-8012-1126-6
- Authoritarian tradition and democratic potential in the social democratic labor movement . 1984, ISBN 3-8046-8631-1
- SPD and public service in the Weimar Republic . 1988, ISBN 3-531-11869-2
- Celebrations of the labor movement. 100 years of youth consecration . 1988, ISBN 3-88520-296-4
- On the way to Europe. European perspectives after the end of communism . 1994, ISBN 3-531-12563-X
- Coming to terms with the past in 1945 and 1989. An impossible comparison? . 1994, ISBN 3-353-01003-3
- Berlin's Memorial Book of the Jewish Victims of National Socialism: May their names never be forgotten! . 1995, ISBN 3-89468-178-0
- Studies on the labor movement and culture in Berlin . 1998, ISBN 3-89166-737-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saxons co-rule in Erfurt . In: Freie Presse , December 6, 2014; Retrieved December 8, 2014
- ↑ New head of department "Inside, Law and Europe" in the Brandenburg state representation: Dr. Klaus Sühl. (No longer available online.) European Movement Germany , September 29, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 29, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Home. Accessed July 6, 2019 .
- ↑ election results. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
- ↑ portal.dielinke-in-sachsen.de ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sühl, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Die Linke), State Secretary in Thuringia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eddelstorf |